good job you're not a campaign manager then. it's not their job to get sentimental about things. it's their job to select posters who won't be a total disgrace to what they're representing and spread the word.

and those posters should be people who are all over the forum. a byteball sig in a byteball thread is an absolute waste of money.

i've noticed bcash fans appear to have latched on to tether as their saviour as it'll result eventual death of bitcoin and the triumph of their coin.

uh, around 1 second of thinking would result in you realising everything would be destroyed. there is nothing special or unique about bcash. this is so obvious i can't believe anyone could not believe this and i pity anyone who rolls it out as an idea.

but logical thinking don't seem to be a strong point in these parts.

dunno about this. as ever it's not doing anything to bring in fresh meat.

what the distribution needs is to be clear, decisive and emphatic. it feels like momentum has bled away while ideas are being thrown out and nothing is being seized upon and made to happen. it's like a sailing ship adrift waiting for the wind to pick up. you've no idea when it will.

even if a method isn't the best, if it's done with enough grunt then it jump starts the whole thing.

i've said it before, i'll say it again, distribution needs to end.

that doesn't mean it has to be completed immediately, but all questions surrounding it need to be cleared up and locked in. name the way it'll happen and then make it happen. don't roll it back. don't change it. don't dither. 

when that's done other things can be concentrated on.

there are two markets - the airdrop one, and the post airdrop one.

i think it's a little suicidal to play around when the transition is approaching. we really don't know what it's gonna look or smell like.

you realise someone can be a byteball supporter and a genuinely mediocre poster at the same time, right?

i've no idea how this guy operates but it's not his job to get sentimental about past affiliations.

no exchange likes low volume pairings. it makes them look bad and they're all about maintaining the image of success.

everything's heading towards being on its ass so i wouldn't read too much into any particular moves.

sit and do nothing for a few years. that's how most people who've made the most serious money made their serious money.

go ahead and panic sell if you want to. you'll get some money back out of it. eventually it'll head back up as everything does, though it could take a few years again. neither option is the end of the world.

because of its growth, mainly off the back of largely worthless erc20 tokens, ethereum has just as much room to fall as it did to go up. i can well see more lowly alts holding much more of their value than ethereum.

bitcoin has its innate simplicity on its side. everyone knows what it does and why it does it. for a long period ethereum was nothing more than an ICO lottery machine.

altcoins exist mainly so people can take your bitcoins and dollars away from you by pumping, dumping and convincing you they'll be the next big thing.

there are some trying to do things that bitcoin can't do. most can't be bothered.

i think it's one of the stupidest questions i've ever read.

the only reason this forum and bitcoin still exists is because there is no such thing as a fake bitcoin, never will be and never can be.

you have a bitcoin wallet. it accepts bitcoins. you send bitcoins. it is 100% impossible for the bitcoin wallet or network to do anything else.

if there was a shred of doubt about this no one would touch it. the total erasure of doubt is the only thing it has going for it to win over skeptics.

looks like a bunch of squiggles with no correlation to me.

i don't think there's any point comparing the start of this year to the start of the previous 3 years. they didn't have the aftermath of a giant bubble to contend with. i don't want to compare the start of 2014 because that would be too damn depressing.

i knew they were implementing segwit, i didn't know they were batching as well. batching is much more important than segwit for reducing fees.

i'm finding it kinda strange how slow some of these places are to stay on the ball with their behavior. i'm not sure i've seen any mention of segwit or batching from gemini and they're supposed to be the fanciest kid in town.

I thought it was discovered that coinbase was 'spamming' after they went down for a while and the network immediately recovered.

I remember seeing all kinds of fancy theories that often added up to a cost of millions per day when coinbase laziness and stupidity adds up and makes sense.

For bitcoin's future health these low fees aren't sustainable so enjoy while you can.

well, if i were the world's largest exchange looking for a new home i'd be looking for somewhere that was more of a player than malta. it doesn't have the greatest rep at the moment and could easily come under major political pressure if the EU or elsewhere decided to come down heavy on crypto.

it's possible binance's turnover could be several factors higher than malta's GDP in a few years. that would make both binance and malta a big fat target, but not quite big enough to shrug off the slings and arrows heading for it.

i hope they spread their bets a little wider than just this one place.

cryptocurrencies will never disappear. they could shrink or implode, but they'll rise again and there'll always be people dabbling in them.

because of that i would've regarded it as more useful if they'd signaled regulations were being worked on. they're inevitable so they may as well get going. they don't have to be scary or irrational and they probably won't be. but i don't think things will go up a level until more people are confident where they stand.

it's silly to have a multi hundred billion dollar grey area floating around. it doesn't help them and it doesn't help the typical market participant or service provider either.

is there much point in comparing the USA to general history?

i've spent a fair bit of time there. in many ways there isn't another society like it on the planet. there's a sickness at the heart of how it chooses to be run and things operate there in a way that would be considered totally beyond the pale in any other developed country.

it's a unique case. it's great to visit. there's no way in hell i would ever put up with living there.

like others have said i choose to trust the crypto hive mind to unearth these problems on my behalf and that's a much, much, much more powerful beast than your own knowledge or that of one individual whose opinions you rate.

if there is such a thing as a vested interest, it's making sure hardware wallets are as safe as they can be. it's in the extreme interest of what must be millions of people by now.



i'm not sure how valid that is. everything about banking is hidden and if they really screw up you're theoretically still in safe hands, that's why people trust it. that's not the case with hardware wallets. you have to rely on the creators and the people who pick their efforts apart too because everyone's ass is hanging on the line. it's then down to you to choose your course of action. no one's gonna save you.

it's clear as mud, but i think they retrospectively insisted you register and send them a nominal amount of btc from the address UBTC forked from to get it.

so it looks like most peoples' claim is toast and they keep it which was the plan all along. that 'opportunity' also ended on february 24th.

a very easy way to lose everything without trying very hard. be careful out there. you might end up being one of those people who writes a doomy thread and no one can understand how you lost so much with a quiet market.

no idea about bitcoin, but don't forget that in other years alts absolutely went insane while bitcoin sat there and did absolutely nothing.

at the same time many alts are still outrageously overvalued and have a long way to fall yet before we can be certain the hype is over. we're either taking a breather before possibly going up again or waiting for the real bear action.